Communities Deliver: the Critical Role of Communities in Reaching Global Targets to End the AIDS Epidemic

This report draws on multiple sources that document the many ways in which communities are advancing the response to AIDS, and the evidence for the effectiveness of these responses. Core areas of community-based activities include advocacy, service provision, community based research and financing are illustrated by innovative examples of community-based actions.

Year of publication:

2015

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Guidance on Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for Serodiscordant Couples, Men and Transgender Women Who Have Sex with Men at High Risk of HIV: Recommendations for Use in the Context of Demonstration Projects

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is effective in preventing HIV transmission. Oral PrEP has been evaluated in gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender women, heterosexual men and women and people who inject drugs. This guidance is intended to complement WHO recommendations (2012) and support the optimal use of oral PrEP to protect individuals and contribute to ending the AIDS epidemic.

Year of publication:

2012

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Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis: Questions and Answers

Oral Pre-exposure Prophylaxis: Questions and Asnwers

Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is effective in preventing HIV transmission. Oral PrEP has been evaluated in gay men and other men who have sex with men, transgender women, heterosexual men and women and people who inject drugs. This question-and-answer document is intended to complement WHO recommendations (2012) and support the optimal use of oral PrEP to protect individuals and contribute to ending the AIDS epidemic.

Year of publication:

2015

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Oral Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis: Putting a New Choice in Context

The World Health Organization (WHO) anticipates releasing updated guidance on oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), containing tenofovir (TDF), as an additional HIV prevention choice. The new guidance is likely to be significantly broader than previously and creates real opportunities to move forward with implementing PrEP as part of comprehensive HIV programmes. This publication, produced collaboratively between UNAIDS, WHO and AVAC, is intended to complement WHO recommendations and support the optimal use of oral PrEP to protect individuals and contribute to ending the AIDS epidemic.

Year of publication:

2015

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UNAIDS Supplement Tool to Set and Monitor Targets for HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care for Key Populations

This document is the supplement to the consolidated guidelines on HIV prevention, diagnoses, treatment and care for key populations, in which WHO brings together all existing guidance relevant to key populations- gay men and men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, people in prisons and other closed settings, sex workers, and transgender people.

Year of publication:

2014, 2015

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UNAIDS Consolidated Guidelines on HIV Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment, and Care for Key Populations

In this new consolidated guidelines document on HIV prevention, diagnoses, treatment and care for key populations, WHO brings together all existing guidance relevant to key populations – gay men and men who have sex with men, people who inject drugs, people in prisons and other closed settings, sex workers, and transgender people.

Year of publication:

2014, 2015

Media:

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Prevention and Treatment of HIV and Other Sexually Transmitted Infections among Men Who Have Sex with Men and Transgender People

These guidelines include evidence-based recommendations, the summary and grading of evidence, implementation issues, and key research gaps. The document presents good practice recommendations that focus on ensuring an enabling environment for the recognition and protection of the human rights of MSM and transgender people.

Year of publication:

2011

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How AIDS Changed Everything: MDG 6 Report

A comprehensive report on the AIDS response over the last 15 years. It includes lessons learned, challenges and gaps that remain, and actions for the future. The majority of information on gay men and other men who have sex with men and transgender people can be found in the “Key Populations” chapter, beginning on page 342.

Year of publication:

2015

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